{"id":9186,"date":"2020-09-01T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2020-09-01T08:04:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T12:04:30","slug":"whataboutwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2020\/09\/whataboutwork\/","title":{"rendered":"What about Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>2020 THEME: TRUTH<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1>SERIES: Q &amp; A<\/h1>\n<h1><strong>TITLE:\u00a0 What about Work<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Scripture: Genesis 1: 26-27; 2:15 <\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (and other Scriptures)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FOUNDATION PRINCIPLES ABOUT WORK<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThe church has lost its hold on reality by allowing work and religion to become separate departments.\u201d\u00a0 The late Dorothy Sayers<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">4 foundational principles: (Chuck Swindoll)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1.\u00a0 Jesus Christ is Lord over (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>all of my life<\/strong><\/span>).<br \/>\n2.\u00a0 Life is not divided between what is (<strong>secular and sacred<\/strong>).<br \/>\n3.\u00a0 The nature of work is (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>good, not evil<\/strong><\/span>).<br \/>\n4.\u00a0 The way you do your work reflects the One (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>who called you to it<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>II.\u00a0\u00a0 HOW SHOULD WE VIEW WORK?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Read Eccl. 2: 11, 18, 24<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWhatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.\u201d Col. 3:17<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWork willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.\u201d Col.3:23<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWhatever you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.\u201d I Cor.10:31<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Turn to 2 Thess. 3:6-15<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Important principle: there is a big difference between (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>will not<\/strong><\/span>) work and (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>cannot<\/strong><\/span>) work.<\/p>\n<p>Next Week: Series: \u201cQ &amp; A\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">What about Stones? Ephesians 4: 25-32<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 THEME: TRUTH SERIES: Q &amp; A TITLE:\u00a0 What about Work Scripture: Genesis 1: 26-27; 2:15 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (and other Scriptures) &nbsp; I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FOUNDATION PRINCIPLES ABOUT WORK \u201cThe church has lost its hold on reality by allowing work and religion to become separate departments.\u201d\u00a0 The late Dorothy Sayers 4 foundational principles: (Chuck Swindoll) 1.\u00a0 Jesus Christ &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2020\/09\/whataboutwork\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon-notes","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9190,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions\/9190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}